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Carriage Room Museum
Open Saturday and Sundays 12:00-3:00 p.m.
The original Carriage Room within the main Stable has been transformed into a magnificent museum that showcases our local history, including the lumbering, farming, and “Great Estate” eras. The Museum highlights the rich history of the estate property and surrounding area. Exhibits include a life-size replica of a blacksmith shop, original 19th-century carriages, the history of the Folger and Wunderlich families, development of the Folger Coffee Company, and a timeline of local and national history. The exhibits also emphasize the importance of the horse to American culture in the West.
Other displays showcase discoveries made during the 2010 stable renovation, including narrow gauge tracks used in the 1870s for transporting grapes and a sample of knob-and-tube wiring used in the original construction.
The Carriage Room Museum is open to the public on Saturdays and Sundays 12:00-3:00PM. Docents will be on hand to enrich your experience!
The Redwood Loggers of Woodside
Featured in our rotating exhibit is the history of logging in the Woodside area from 1849 to the early 1860s.
Funded by the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors’ Measure K Funds, the Hurlbut Johnson Charitable Trust, and the Beverly Folger Foundation, the exhibit features the men who owned the mountains and the trees as well as the men who cut them down—from John Coppinger, who received the original land grant from the Mexican governor, to Charles Brown who built the area’s first sawmill, to Colonel John Coffee Hayes, the first sheriff of San Francisco who commuted on horseback from his mountain home to his city office.
The exhibit also features the “timber beasts” who did the dangerous work of preparing and delivering the huge logs from the steep slopes below Skyline Ridge to the mills. Their lives are depicted in vintage photographs with descriptions of each arduous job as well as with the actual tools they used—such as whip saws, axes, wedges, and spring boards. Also, a life-size logger properly dressed for work and ready for action will be on view.
The exhibit is free and open to the public, Saturdays and Sundays 12:00-3:00 p.m.